Thread subject: Diptera.info :: asilid and/or emphid from pre-Linnean droving

Posted by mwkozlowski on 04-02-2022 09:26
#1

Accurate miniature drawings of Joris Hoefnagel show various (often recognifsable) insects from central Europe. In this case he confronted two flies and a weevil (evidently Rhynchites auratus/bacchus). The left fly depicts an asiilid female (which one?, possible to say something?) but that on right looks more like an impossibly big (ca. 2 cm) empidid with strange yellow antennae. Any suggestions what could it be?

Posted by Chris Cohen on 04-02-2022 21:12
#2

The fly on the right is Molobratia teutonus. The fly on the left is an asiline, perhaps Tolmerus or something similar.

Posted by mwkozlowski on 07-02-2022 18:17
#3

Thank you very much, the dots on the abdomen are covered b y the wings....

Edited by mwkozlowski on 07-02-2022 18:19